From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Aug 31 23:40:03 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 692799C6F0A for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 23:40:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from maillist@bsdjunk.com) Received: from fallback8.mail.ru (fallback8.mail.ru [94.100.181.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BBBA1ACB for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 23:40:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from maillist@bsdjunk.com) Received: from smtp12.mail.ru (smtp12.mail.ru [94.100.181.93]) by fallback8.mail.ru (mPOP.Fallback_MX) with ESMTP id E52C988BFDF3 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 2015 02:16:31 +0300 (MSK) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=mail.ru; s=mail2; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:From:References:To:Subject; bh=y3zccgDl+BZR/SyqznuMCBM3HNQgkzPksC3k6bKelDY=; b=llpyEBBYJDd18Kvp/0T/DU5tl1snTQY9WpzeMB00xdtGtPtG0AyTZtvEe7rSOWd/CTAL3fWBviMVLW9mrep1vObpJ/Mtftas2zQ/rwDEd30aI970/fGcRZIMNyMLwDnEj3hqPgsZZy1EHzYFpgHkKItbnfWYeyqU2mdRRL6Mttk=; Received: from [187.150.132.107] (port=50180 helo=[192.168.1.77]) by smtp12.mail.ru with esmtpa (envelope-from ) id 1ZWYJK-00020W-6z for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 02:16:22 +0300 Subject: Re: generating xorg.conf does not work To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <55E0A5E5.1040803@gmx.de> From: Chris Petrik Message-ID: <55E4E041.5020107@bsdjunk.com> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 18:16:17 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mras: Ok X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 23:40:03 -0000 On 08/31/15 17:24, doug@safeport.com wrote: > On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Warren Block wrote: > >> On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, doug@safeport.com wrote: >>> >>> Maybe I should have taken the questions one at a time. My highest >>> priority question is that the handbook is in error on how to >>> generate xorg.conf. >>> startx is just not correct. >> >> I don't understand what you are saying there. > > This part got cut from my first post. The handbook says: > > To generate the configuration file and start the X system, issue > this command: > > % startx > > This is clearly wrong. 5.4 also says autoconfiguration is the > preferred method. I found a post to forums.freebsd.org on 8/4/15 from > wblock@ saying: "Auto-generating xorg.conf is not recommended any more." > > Hence my confusion. The next part I understand and will try. But it > seems to me that Xorg -configure, if it is there, should work. I was > asking should this be reported as a bug (I could find nothing) or is > there another way just not documented yet? > >>> The next issue (Xorg -confgure), I only noted in passing. My >>> question here is this a FreeBSD issue or should it be PR'd to Xorg. >>> For starters 'Xorg -configure' selected the vesa driver, >>> autoconfiguration picked the ATI Radeon driver. The vesa driver >>> could not negociate a setting. Note even if it did the screen >>> resolution would be 1026x760 or whatever the current one-size fits >>> all resolution is. This is clearly an error in the Xorg command. >>> There may have been other errors in the generated xorg.conf file, >>> but the first one was the vesa driver could not get something out of >>> the BIOS it liked. Earlier versions of Xorg this all worked albeit >>> with the vesa driver. >> >> Back up for a second. Exactly what video hardware do you have? If >> you have onboard Intel video along with an add-on Radeon card, it >> would probably be best to disable the Intel video in the BIOS. > > If this not a depreciated method, I can report it and/or provide all > the data. That was not really my question as clearly the radeon driver > works. Again I was going for, "is this just a documentation error"? > >> Otherwise, try this for xorg.conf. Do not add this to an existing >> file, this is the *entire* file: >> >> Section "Device" >> Identifier "Card0" >> Driver "radeon" >> EndSection > > I assume I can then also add the font commands as needed. I could find > no documentation in the FreeBSD wiki or on Xorg that indicated X would > just piece all this together. I assume this would now go in > /usr/local/etc/X11. > > Thanks > > _____ > Douglas Denault > http://www.safeport.com > doug@safeport.com > Voice: 301-217-9220 > Fax: 301-217-9277 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Hi, I think what wblock meant was the old Xorg -configure is no longer recommended. Also this is the wrong list to be complaining that the docs are wrong these are mainly for questions freebsd-docs@ is what you want to chit chat about doc issues. Or just fetch the code and edit to what you think it should say. I am rather interested to see said patch.